Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 15:37:14 -0800 From: erk! <tapeworm@insekta.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86, Anti-aliasing, Truetype, Freetype Message-ID: <20021104153714.515c9f10.tapeworm@insekta.org> In-Reply-To: <20021104220743.28404.qmail@web41102.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021104220743.28404.qmail@web41102.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:07:43 -0800 (PST) "Scott I. Remick" <siremick@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'm close but not quite there yet, so I need some more help... > > FreeBSD 4.7-REL, Xfree86 4.2.0, Enlightenment 0.16.5, OpenOffice > 1.0.1, recent Mozilla nightly, Freetype 1.3.1, Freetype2 2.1.2 > > I have Truetype fonts working, and they're even anti-aliased in OO, > but they look like crap (certainly not like on a Windoze system). a few more specifics here *might* be somewhat helpful. you mention mozilla, so are you getting not-so-purdy fonts just in mozilla, just in gtk apps, just in openoffice, or all-around? are you actually selecting the truetype fonts to be used on said apps? this is relatively important, because while you may be using truetype fonts, anti-aliasing may not actually be working for you. for instance, to have anti-aliased fonts with gtk12 ports, you need to install and configure gdkxft. concerning openoffice, though, it doesn't handle microsoft-based fonts very well, from what i've noticed, even on windows systems. it seems to me that this is a problem with openoffice (at least when dealing with the .doc format voodoo), not your configuration. lemme guess..odd craggy bits here and there, and badly spaced type (i.e. the letters on some words look disjointed, sometimes letters look crammed too close to one another, sometimes too far apart?) this was my experience with openoffice under x-windows and ms windows. same thing for staroffice. also, if this extends to mozilla, there have been some recent discussions regarding messed up fonts. you might take a look back in the recent mailing list archives. - erk, who tossed out *office, and went with abiword. all is good once again. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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